The MyBook is setup so that when plugged into an XP box, it automagically skips the WD bloatware and adds a logical drive.
Gparted shows that the Western Digital 3TB MyBook Essential is formatted with NTFS. When connected to my mythbox, I believe it came up as /dev/sdb. Why is sdb1 only a fraction of sdb? When the HDD is connected to an XP machine, the device shows 3GB (actually 2.7GB) capacity.
Quote:
[root@mythtv asterisk-1.8.5.0]# cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
8 0 199147487 sda
8 1 5116671 sda1
8 2 2040255 sda2
8 3 191984782 sda3
8 16 2930233344 sdb
8 17 782748672 sdb1
[root@mythtv asterisk-1.8.5.0]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 4.9G 4.0G 589M 88% /
none 996M 0 996M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3 181G 90G 82G 53% /myth
Severall attempts to mount the device were made:
Quote:
[root@mythtv asterisk-1.8.5.0]# mkdir /mnt/usbhdd
[root@mythtv asterisk-1.8.5.0]# ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbhdd
Failed to read last sector (732558079): Invalid argument
HINTS: Either the volume is a RAID/LDM but it wasn't setup yet,
or it was not setup correctly (e.g. by not using mdadm --build ...),
or a wrong device is tried to be mounted,
or the partition table is corrupt (partition is smaller than NTFS),
or the NTFS boot sector is corrupt (NTFS size is not valid).
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdb1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
[root@mythtv asterisk-1.8.5.0]# ntfs-3g /dev/sdb /mnt/usbhdd
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdb' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
I should have checked this before I moved 120GB of data on to this drive. I would like this drive to be compatible with my mythbox. My guess is that the WD bloatware is the cause and that I need to reformat the reformat the drive, which means copying the 120GB to another drive.
If I format (with Gparted) the drive with NTFS, I believe I should expect to lose the data, but will this take care of the problem above, where a UNIX kernel can not see the NTFS partition?
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